The Government is providing $25 million for recovery grants to help undertake urgent work, including fencing, and clearing silt to save fruit trees and vines.

Details are available here. Applications are now open.

Farmer and grower recovery grants

Details about the grants can be found here. This page includes a fact sheet.

Applications can be found here. 

Rural sector funding

The funding is on top of an initial $4 million in targeted funding to help with urgent primary sector needs not being met by other organisations.

MPI is working closely with sector groups, including DairyNZ, Beef + Lamb New Zealand, Horticulture New Zealand, Federated Farmers, New Zealand Winegrowers, the Rural Support Trust and whenua Māori entities, to identify areas of greatest need.

Further information for sector and regional groups with funding requests is available here.

General primary sector fact sheet

Our updated general primary sector fact sheet with Cyclone Gabrielle information can be found here.

Feed Coordination Service

We’ve also teamed up with Federated Farmers to restart the national Feed Coordination Service to support farmers recovering from the cyclone.

Further details can be found here.